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The Aztecs

Rise and Fall of an Empire

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Aztecs

Rise and Fall of an Empire

By: Serge Gruzinski

The gruesome Aztec practice of mass human sacrifice horrified Cortés when he entered Tenochticlán in 1519. Yet these bloodthirsty warriors also created a refined socety, monumental architecture, powerful sculpture, magnificently illustrated codices, fine goldwork and brilliant feathered costumes. How did these contradictory aspects co-exist in one people? From their early beginnings as nomads through their time as powerful empire builders to the period of Spanish rule, The Aztecs examines the complete history of this amazing culture. The richly illustrated text is supplemented by contemporary documents including evidence on Aztec myths, social organization, trade, the arts, human sacrifice, the conquest, the continuation of Aztec religion after Christianity and the fate of the Indian population today.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500300186

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9780500300183

The Mestizo Mind

The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Mestizo Mind

The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

By: Serge Gruzinski

Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual, and a phenomenon we now call globalization. Revealing globalization's early origins, Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary mélange seen in the films of Peter Greenaway and Wong Kar-Wai to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind, a state of mixed thinking that we all possess. A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.

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Routledge

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1136697403

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9781136697401

The Mestizo Mind

The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

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Psychology Press

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0415928796

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9780415928793

Images at War

Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

By: Serge Gruzinski

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Images at War

Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

By: Serge Gruzinski

DIV“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico. Concentrating on the political meaning of the baroque image and its function within a multicultural society, Gruzinski compares its ubiquity in Mexico to our modern fascination with images and their meaning. Although the baroque image played a decisive role in many arenas, especially that of conquest and New World colonization, its powerful resonance in the sphere of religion is a focal point of Gruzinski’s study. In his analysis of how images conveyed meaning across linguistic barriers, he uncovers recurring themes of false images, less-than-perfect replicas, the uprooting of peoples and cultural memories, and the violence of iconoclastic destruction. He shows how various ethnic groups—Indians, blacks, Europeans—left their distinct marks on images of colonialism and religion, coopting them into expressions of identity or instruments of rebellion. As Gruzinski’s story unfolds, he tells of Aztec idols, the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe, conquistadors, Franciscans, and neoclassical attempts to repress the baroque. In the final chapter he discusses the political and religious implications of contemporary imagery—such as that in Mexican soap operas—and speculates about the future of images in Latin America. Originally written in French, this work makes available to an English audience a seminal study of Mexico and the role of the image in the New World. /div

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Duke University Press

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082238311X

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9780822383116

The Eagle and the Dragon

Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Eagle and the Dragon

Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century

By: Serge Gruzinski

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe. In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle was destroyed but the Chinese Dragon held strong and repelled the invaders - after first seizing their cannon. For the first time, people from three continents encountered one other, confronted one other and their lives became entangled. These events were of great interest to contemporaries and many people at the time grasped the magnitude of what was going on around them. The Iberians succeeded in America and failed in China. The New World became inseparable from the Europeans who were to conquer it, while the Celestial Empire became, for a long time to come, an unattainable goal. Gruzinski explores this encounter between civilizations that were different from one another but that already fascinated contemporaries, and he shows that our world today bears the mark of this distant age. For it was in the sixteenth century that human history began to be played out on a global stage. It was then that connections between different parts of the world began to accelerate, not only between Europe and the Americas but also between Europe and China. This is what is revealed by a global history of the sixteenth century, conceived as another way of reading the Renaissance, less Eurocentric and more in tune with our age.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745681328

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9780745681320

The Conquest of Mexico

Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Conquest of Mexico

Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

By: Serge Gruzinski

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and the Spanish colonists' introduction of alphabetical script which the Indians had to combine with their own traditional - oral and pictorial - forms of communication. Gruzinski discusses the Indians' often awkward initiation into writing, their assimilation of Spanish culture, and their subsequent reinterpretation of their own past and recovers the changing Indian perceptions of the sacred and their 'absorption' of elements from the Christian tradition. The Conquest of Mexico is a major work of cultural history which reconstructs a crucial episode in the European colonization of the New World. It is also an important contribution to the study of the relationship between memory, orality, images and writing in history.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745683568

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9780745683560

What Time is It There?

By: Serge Gruzinski

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What Time is It There?

By: Serge Gruzinski

Gruzinski's sensitive analysis brings out the singularities of the two visions, that of Islam and that of America, each already keeping a watchful eye on the other and yet irreducibly different, with this question always in the background: what did it mean to 'think the world' at the dawn of modern times?

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0745647529

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9780745647524

The Conquest of Mexico

The Incorporation of Indian Societies Into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries

By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Conquest of Mexico

The Incorporation of Indian Societies Into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries

By: Serge Gruzinski

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian′s memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and the Spanish colonists′ introduction of alphabetical script which the Indians had to combine with their own traditional – oral and pictorial – forms of communication. Gruzinski discusses the Indians′ often awkward initiation into writing, their assimilation of Spanish culture, and their subsequent reinterpretation of their own past and recovers the changing Indian perceptions of the sacred and their ′absorption′ of elements from the Christian tradition. The Conquest of Mexico is a major work of cultural history which reconstructs a crucial episode in the European colonization of the New World. It is also an important contribution to the study of the relationship between memory, orality, images and writing in history.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0745608736

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9780745608730

What Time is It There?

By: Serge Gruzinski

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By: Serge Gruzinski

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The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier's Work in Context

By: Laurent Dousset,Serge Tcherkézoff

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The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier's Work in Context

By: Laurent Dousset,Serge Tcherkézoff

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.

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Berghahn Books

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0857453319

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9780857453310

The Conquest of Mexico

Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

By: Serge Gruzinski

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Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

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John Wiley & Sons

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Images at War

Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

By: Serge Gruzinski

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Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

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The Aztecs

The Aztecs

The Mestizo Mind

The Mestizo Mind

The Mestizo Mind

The Mestizo Mind

Images at War

Images at War

The Eagle and the Dragon

The Eagle and the Dragon

The Conquest of Mexico

The Conquest of Mexico

What Time is It There?

What Time is It There?

The Conquest of Mexico

The Conquest of Mexico

What Time is It There?

What Time is It There?

The Scope of Anthropology

The Scope of Anthropology

The Conquest of Mexico

The Conquest of Mexico

Images at War

Images at War

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